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<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> I answered your question with several ligitimate scenarios. Your beginning to chase your tail.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> You started off by saying we should feel guilty for shooting small bucks when our neighbor doesn't see any bucks.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
That is not what I said at all..LOL...I am not chasing my tail, I am just continually repeating things that I have said due to my search for arguments to the contrary. I have yet to see any good reasons for an experienced hunter to harvest a young, small spike, forkhorn, button, or basket rack buck. My suggestion was maybe to try to help out the neighbor if you do not care for rack size. Keep in mind, he may have changed his thinking also, and now he may care about rack size. Maybe one or more of your offspring would like to harvest a quality buck when they get enough experience under their belt? Better yet, maybe they would want to do it as a novice hunter?? Wouldn't that be great? All the more reason to harvest does instead of smaller bucks.
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> When I responded that in alot of farm areas , mine in particular , the neighbors shoot anything , you turned it around (threw mud in my face) and said that &quot;if the neihbors dont give a darn , neither should you?&quot;<img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle>
Getting in a friendly debate is healthy , but it burns my backside when someone asks questions in behalf of their opinion , and then doesn't bother to acknowlege honest legitimate answers<img src=icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle><hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
I did not &quot;throw mud in your face&quot;, sorry you feel that way, but if that is how you feel, so be it. Don't get too worked up over this disagreement. I am not. I answered your legitimate questiono f an earlier post, not your answer, with a legitimate question of my own, and I am waiting for a reply.
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> BTW , the states who now have antler point restrictions , do you think they have the restrictions in place to strictly produce trophy bucks<img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle><hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
No, that is not the total reason and you know this. But let it be said that the antler restrictions are in place to help balance out the buck to doe ratio by putting an imposed limit on the number of smaller bucks harvested. You cannot deny that. Bigger bucks are icing on the cake so to say, along with a healthier herd. In which, I would be willing to bet, everyone wants.

Let's get one thing straight.

Do I think it should be law for all experienced hunters to pass on all smaller bucks?

Absolutley not!!!

This is the very thing I am trying to avoid. Point restrictions in my state are the very thing I am trying to avoid.

I do not want my state deer herd getting anywhere near the status to where the state has to come up with more laws to regulate, hinder or make a hunt harder than it has to be. The states with imposed point restriction laws had to do it for a reason!!! And that reason is a very unstable balance in the buck to doe ratio.